We all do it. Just a quick check to see if anyone liked our last Instagram post. Maybe a quick scroll through Facebook to check what's happening while we wait for our coffee. Then suddenly, it's 3 hours later and we've looked at the entire internet. Whoops. We're a generation of smartphone … [Read more...]
3 Things To Teach Your Teen That You May Assume They Already Know
It truly seems like overnight that your child grows from a small child to a taller-than-you teenager. They go from wanting the latest toy to borrowing your clothes and then riding in cars with friends. The transition goes so quickly that all of a sudden these young adults seemed to have miraculously … [Read more...]
Late To the Party
There are some pretty fine things in life that I have been slow in discovering. I lived most of my days without these things in them, but now that they're here, I am a bit happier. Here they are:1. Eyebrow Threading. My eyebrows are sneaky little snakes. They are sparse and shapeless and have always … [Read more...]
Invasion of Privacy or Parenting?
I have some rules around communication for my 11 year-old son. They were established when he first got his cell phone. Actually, that's not totally true. They were established when his friends first got their cell phones. Until that point we really didn't need any rules because he barely used the … [Read more...]
c u l8r mom
Yes.I bought my daughter a mobile phone. My nearly-ten-year-old daughter. Why, you ask? Well, this fall she'll be riding the school bus all on her own (and yes, I do know that plenty of kids start riding school buses waaaay before grade five and they don't need mobile phones). Thing is, she'll … [Read more...]